Once again, it seems, half the population of Qatar are getting ready to leave the country. If you are like me, your thoughts may turn to eve...

This month we are trialling a new feature for our newsletter - a round up of what's on next month. The round up has been very kindly pro...

Update : The survey is now complete, and the results are being anaylsed. Thanks to everyone who took part! You may have noticed a new link t...

A Qatar tourist guide today decided to shut down its paper publication, and to concentrate instead on its website. It's not a huge or fr...

New criticism of the Qatar sponsorship law has arisen, along with hopes that Qatar may follow Bahrain in abandoning a law which some highly ...

Over the last few years we have written about virtually everything under the sun in Qatar - nature, history, culture, food, hotels, clothes,...

Flu is going round Qatar at the moment, and has already hit my household. (I am just recovering from a particularly nasty dose of it.) It...

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"It's not so hot today," my wife said to me. "It's only 44." The summer heat has hit Qatar with a bang. We have ...

Here are two things I dislike about Qtel and one thing I like about them. 1. Spamming my phone. Why do they get to send me text messages sel...

There seem to be contradictory signs in Qatar. There are clearly fewer people here - a fact you can tell from the fall in traffic. One engin...

Suprisingly for a peninsula country Qatar has few decent public beaches easily reachable from a road. One of these was Al Wakra beach, orig...